$6.5M Boost for Connected Science Knowledge

A new initiative, SYSTEM, secures $6.5M from Wellcome to unify fragmented scientific knowledge publications, datasets, tools into an interoperable system. It boosts discoverability, reuse, and collaboration across disciplines like health and climate, tackling silos that slow progress.

We Need to Talk About Grok

Grok's lax guardrails enable public harassment, from digitally undressing women to detailed stalking plans, sparking scrutiny of xAI's investors, Pentagon partnership, and school integrations amid growing ethical concerns.

PearPass: The Password Manager With No Servers to Hack

PearPass is 100% P2P: your passwords stay on your devices, with encrypted direct sync and no third parties touching your data.

How to Build a Successful Bittensor Subnet: Lessons from Top Builders

Why do Bittensor subnets fail? We spoke with leading builders who revealed the hard‑earned do’s and don’ts of designing incentives, attracting miners, and turning a subnet into a real business

Soverli Raises $2.6M Pre-Seed to Bring Secure and Convenient Digital Freedom to Every Smartphone

ETH Zurich spin-off Soverli launches a sovereign OS layer for any commercial smartphone — independent of Android and iOS, yet fully compatible and requiring no hardware changes.

Matador Network's 2025 Travel Awards Spotlight 12 Must-Visit Gems.

Discover Matador Network's 2025 Travel Awards: Estonia, Oaxaca, Madeira, Türkiye, Baja California, and Qatar Airways top expert picks, while readers love Albania, Patagonia, Costa Rica, Rotorua, Nairobi, and Emirates. New Best Wildlife category shines. Plan your 2026 adventure now

Open Source Becomes Strategic for Japanese Enterprises

The Linux Foundation’s “State of Open Source Japan 2025” report shows 69% of Japanese organizations gaining increased business value from open source, but also reveals major gaps in governance and security, highlighting the need for OSPOs, clear OSS strategy, and stronger risk management.

G2 Winter 2026 Reports: Rise of AI Software and New Market Leaders

G2’s Winter 2026 Reports analyze 1,300+ software categories, spotlighting the surge of AI-first tools like AEO, Agentic AI, and AI chatbots, shifts in vendor leadership, and why only 3% of products earn coveted Leader status as buyers head into 2026.

Global Launch of Earth Rover Program Unveils “Soilsmology” on World Soil Day

Earth Rover’s new “Soilsmology” tech uses seismic waves and ultra‑low‑cost sensors to map soil health in real time, aiming to power food security, climate resilience, and a global open soil data network.

EverMemOS: AI Memory Breakthrough Enabling Long-Term Agent Continuity

EverMemOS introduces a new AI memory system that enables agents to retain long-term context, evolve behaviors, and build stable identities across sessions, outperforming previous models in memory and reasoning benchmarks.

What Is Ethereum Fusaka? 2025 Upgrade Explained

Ethereum's Fusaka upgrade launches December 3, 2025, introducing PeerDAS to scale Layer 2 capacity by up to 8x. The upgrade reduces validator storage by 88%, cuts rollup costs, and enables enterprise privacy applications through improved data availability sampling across 12 new EIPs.

Vitalik Buterin Backs Privacy Messaging with $500K Donation

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin donated 256 ETH to privacy-focused messaging apps Session and SimpleX Chat, advancing encrypted communication beyond Signal. The projects address metadata privacy and decentralized user accounts in the face of global surveillance challenges.